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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The Beauty of Doing Mathematics</title>
    <subTitle>: three public dialogues</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lang, Serge</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lang, Serge</namePart>
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      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>: Springer-Verlag</publisher>
    <dateIssued> ©1985</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>vii, 127 pages  : illustrations  24 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>If someone told you that mathematics is quite beautiful, you might be surprised. But you should know that some people do mathematics all their lives, and create mathematics, just as a composer creates music. By "mathematics" I mean pure mathematics.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>"Originally, they were published in the Revue du Palais de la découverte [in French]"--Preface.

	What does a pure mathematician do and why? --
A lively activity --
Great problems of geometry and space</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/ Serge Lang</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Diophantische Gleichung</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Geometrie</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Topologie</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Matematica -- biografias</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Geometrie</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">510 LAN</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780387961491</identifier>
  <identifier type="">:Variety Books Publishers &amp; Distributors	 :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 </identifier>
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